Infant mortality rates rise in Texas after abortion ban

In a completely predictable development, the infant mortality rate in 2022 rose to 8%, compared to a 2% increase in the rest of the U.S. Death from birth defects rose 23%, compared to a decrease of 3% in the rest of the U.S. This followed the abortion restrictions imposed in Texas in 2021.

Well done, "pro-lifers." You haven't saved any fetuses (the overall abortion rate in the U.S. rose after the Dobbs decision), but you did manage to kill more infants.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-texas-infant-mortality-birth-defects-b055ac35cdbc9ec13f400b4c3e1056e7

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Punches · 46-50, F

Problems are never solved, just rearranged.

I do not understand why in the past couple years, the fed or whoever has been so "bent" on wanting to take away rights?

What are the hoping to accomplish? Wanting to remove LGBT rights, black rights, women's rights, etc.

These "Christian nationalists" or whatever, how are they going to react when the fed comes after their rights?

LeopoldBloom · M

@Punches They're going to scream "oppression." Having to live in a country where abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage are legal is worse than being an inmate at Auschwitz.

Punches · 46-50, F

@LeopoldBloom I do not get why they want to outlaw contraception. Are they going to try to outlaw "self service" next?

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Punches · 46-50, F

@LeopoldBloom I guess the elite figure they now control peoples' lives and money, now they want to go for peoples' bodies.